Christopher Mark Conn

Monday, August 13, 2012

It's my first day of vacation (I take one week in June and another in August) and I am too lazy to do
anything around the house so I decided to start a blog, following in the footsteps of other deads who
have created such great blogs. I hope to contribute something and have a little fun with this.

I injured my right knee back in March and had to take a break from running for 4 months. Finally in
late July I was able to get out and run again. I just finished my 3rd week back and my runs are back to 45 minutes. I plan to add a little time to my 4th run this week, will try to build up a longish run. I run by time so I always measure my runs in minutes not miles.

I say I live in Cedar Park/Leander because my subdivision is in a MUD district between these two towns north of Austin. It's a peaceful little burb and we have a great running path around the neighborhood. The motorists are aware of people on the path for the most part but a pickup truck nearly ran over me last year. I've learned to run behind them not in front of them.

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About Me

A brief history of The Dead Runners Society. I first became aware of the Internet in 1991 and decided to start a running list of my own. I put together a small mailing list on March 15, 1991 with the addresses of some of my co-workers and Internet running friends and named it after a movie called the Dead Poets Society.
We later moved to a Listserv list at Dartmouth College where we are today. The list grew and deads started forming regional groups and meeting each other. At this point we were no longer just an Internet list but a community of runners all over the world. We celebrated our 21st birthday in February of 2012 with a world conference here in Austin, Texas.